The Russellville Democrat., 1887-12-07

l What can it bring yOuf NOthlbS. <S~tn ing. The salvo they try fD pat on your wounds will not stick. They can not, witt their bungling surgery, nsend the broken bones.
 | Zoppar. the Naamathite, md Bildad, l the Shuhite, aud Eliphaz, the Temanite, come in and talk and talk and talk, but miserable comforters arc they all. They | can not pour light into tho cave of Adul- l lam. They can not bring a single drop of l water from
 | The well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate. | But, glory Do to Jesus Christ, there is | comfort at the gate. There is life in the well at the gate. If you give me time | will draw up Q promise for every man, woman and child in this house. Aye, I | will do it in two minutes. l will lay hold I the rope of the old well.
 What is your trouble? 'sOh,v you say, q am so sick, so weary of life-ailments after ailments.v will draw mp promise; | The inhabitants shall never say T am sick" l What is your trouble? "Oh, it is loss of 1 nds-bereavement," you say. l will draw you up promise, fresh and cold, out of the we'll:
 am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
 What is your trouble? You sny it is the
 innrmities of old age. l will draw you up
 a promise:
 Down to old ago I am with thee, to hoary hairs will carry thee.
 | What is your trouble? "Oh," you say,
 q have widowed soul, and my children cry for bread. bring up this promise: T Leave thy fatherless children-I will preserve
 them alive and let thy widows trust in me. break through the armed ranks of your
 sorrows to-day and bring to your parched | lips
 l A drink of the water of the well of Bethlo- hem, which is by the gate
 Again, the Gospel well is nt the gate of Heaven. have not heard yet one single
 intelligent account of the future world from anybody who does not believe in the | Bible. They throw such fog about tue subject that do not want to go to the
 skeptic's heaven, to the transcendental-
 ist's heaven, to the worldly philosophers heaven. I would not exchanoe the poor. est room in your house for the finest | heaven that Huxley, or Stuart Mill or Darwin ever dreamed of Their heaven has no Christ in it.; and heaven without Christ, though you could sweep the whole universe into it, would be a hell! Oh, they
 tell us there are no songs there; there are | no coronations in Heaven--that is all | imagination. They tell us we will do there about what we do here, only on q larger scale--geometrize with clearer in- tellect, and with alpenstock go chamber | ing up over the icebergs in an eternal vacation. Rather than that, turn to my Bible, and I find Johns picture of that good 1and-that Heaven which was your
 lullaby in infancy; that Heaven which our children in the Sabbath-school will sing about this afternoon; that Heaven which has q ''wel at the gate" | After you have been on q long journey, and you come in all bedusted and tired to | your home. the first thing you want is re-
 freshing ablution; and I am glad to know
 that after we get through the pilgrim- age of this world-the hard, dusty | pilgrimage-we will find well at
 the gate. Tn that one wash, away
 will go our sins and sorrows. do not care
 whether cherub, or seraph, or my own de- parted friends in that blessed land placo to my lips the cup, the touch of that cup 1 will be life, will be Heayen! was read l ing of how the ancients sought for the | fountain of perpetual youth. They thought | if they could only find and drink out l of that well, the old would become young
 again, the sick would be cured aud every | body would have eternal juvenescence I Of course, they could not find it. Eurekal ! 1 have found it
 The water of the well of Bethlehem, which Is by the gate.
 think we had better make a bargain l with those who leave us, going out of this | world from time to time, as to where
 we will meet them. Travellers part
 ing appoint place of future
 meeting. They say: "W.e will meet at Rome, CT we will meet at Stockholm, or Vienna, or Jerusalem, or Bethlehem.o y Now, when we come to stand by the death 1 pillow of those who are leaving us for the
 far land, do not let us weep as though we l would never see them again, but let us,
 there standing, appoint a place where we
 will meet. Where shall it be? Shall 1t be
 on the banks of the river? No. The banks 1 are too long. Shall it be in the temple? No, no. There is such host there--ten thousand times ten thousand. Where shall we meet our loved ones? Let us
 make an appointment to meet at the we'll by the gate. Oh Heaven! Sweet Heaven Dear Heavenl Heaven, where Jesus isl | Heaveni Heayenl
 But while I stand here there comes a l revulsion of feeling when look into your eyes and know there are souls here dy ring
 ofthirst, notwithstanding the well at the gate. Between them and the well of Heaven there is a great army of sin,
 and though Christ is ready to clear a way | to that we'll for them, they will not have his love or intercession
 But l am glad to know that you may come yet. The well is here--the well of
 Heaven. Come; do not care how feeble you are. Let me take hold of your arm ! ,J tof li- ~h Ho, every one that thirsteth. come.
 Iwoud rather win one soul to Christ
 this morning than wear the crown of the
 worlds dominion. Do not let any man go away and say I did not invite him. Oh, if you could only just look at my
 Lord once; if you could just see him full
 in tho face; ay, if you could only do as that woman did whom l read about at the beginning of the serylces--just como up behind him and touch his feet-4sne. thinks you would live. In Northern New
 Jersey one winter three little children wandered off from home in snowstorm. | Night came on. Father and mother
 said: ssWhere are the children?"
 They could not be found. They started
 out in haste, and the news ran to the
 neighbors, and before morning it was said
 that there were hundreds of men hunting
 the mountains for those three children,
 but found them not. After awhile man
 imagined there was place that had not
 been looked at and he went and saw tho
 three children. He examined their bodies. He found that tho older boy had taken off
 his coat and wrapped it around the younger one, the baby, and then taken off
 his vest and put it around the other one; {;
 and there they all died, he probably the first for he had no coat or vest Oh
 it was a touching scene when that was
 brought to lighti I was on the ground a little while after, and it brought the
 whole scene to my mind; and thought to
 myself of a more melting scene than that:
 It is that Jesus, our elder brother, took off
 the robe of royalty and laid aside the last 1 garment of earthly comfort that ho might